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THE ideal text-book of arithmetic still remains to be written, and the time has not yet come when the ideal book would be a financial success. It will equip the boy or girl with the knowledge of the subject necessary for his other studies and his after-life. It will drop some branches which have in the past had usefulness but are now useless, and it will refrain from dealing with problems the subject-matter of which is outside a boy's experience and unintelligible to him, even if the calculation involved is simple once the subject-matter is understood. The ideal book with our present imperial system of weights and measures will easily be comprised within a hundred pages, and when the imperial system is dropped and the metric system becomes general the length will be further reduced.
(1) Arithmetic. Parts I, II., and III., complete with Answers.
By C. Godfrey E. A. Price. Pp. xiii + 467. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1915.) Price 4s.; without answers, 3s. 6d.
(2) Pendlebury's New Concrete Arithmetic. Sixth Year.
By C. Pendlebury H. Leather Pp. 80. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.) Price 6d.
(3) Plane Trigonometry.
By H. Leslie Reed. Pp. xiii + 290 + xvi. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1915.) Price 3s. 6d.
(4) Statics. Part II.
By F. C. Fawdry. Pp. 159â305+viii. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1915.) Price 2s.
(5) Numerical Examples in Physics.
By H. S. Jones. Pp. xii + 332. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1915.) Price 3s. 6d.
(6) Exercises in Laboratory Mathematics.
By A. W. Lucy. Pp. 245. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1915.) Price 3s. 6d.
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M., D. (1) Arithmetic Parts I, II, and III, complete with Answers (2) Pendlebury's New Concrete Arithmetic Sixth Year (3) Plane Trigonometry (4) Statics Part II (5) Numerical Examples in Physics (6) Exercises in Laboratory Mathematics. Nature 96, 199–201 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096199a0
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